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14 THE AGE, Wednesday 25 September 1991 Edited by MICHAEL SHMITH Arts Entertainment Audette's work deserves recognition Beaton as a more conservative artist than be was. His other talents for instance as a ballad singing a joy on numbers such as 'Deep Dark Truthful Mirror and coun-tryfled 'Almost Blue'. And it was a classy ballad bracket that provided the concert highlight, with segueing arrangements of the tender 'So Like Candy' (from the new 'Mightly Like a Rose' album), urgent 'I Want You' and a polished rendition of the torch standard 'The Very Thought of You'. Providing an assured backing were former Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, with US session aces Larry Knechtel on keyboards and bassist Jerry Scheff (who played with the original Elvis). Regular guitarist Marc Ribot was missing on the antipodean tour, but Costello picked up the lead Instrumental duties impressively, if sometimes over-enthusiastlcally.

Melbourne was the last stop in a five-month world odyssey and the musicians were determined to let their hair down In a two-hour concert that reached its climax with four encores. They played with relish, digging out favorites like 'Oliver's Army', 'Veronica' and 'Alison', airing the new, slyly subversive hit, 'The Other Side of Summer', pumping out classics by Willie Dixon and Little Richard, and thrashing the more vituperative Costello originals. The irony of linking 'Watching The Detectives' to the anti-hanging 'Let Him Dangle' was well stretching it, but you had to admire Costello for re-fashioning the former in jazzy gear. Richard Pleasance delivered an occasionally loose but convincing opening act that signalled his songwriting strengths. Overall, this was one of the more memorable concerts I have seen.

The fact that It was unexpected heightened the pleasure. The world as Beaton saw it i 7 i.S Wlnford's subject Is the ltved-ln-world of personal experience. For example, a work like 'Tired' succinctly conveys the experience of weariness; clutching his head in his hands a blue figure slumps down In a bedroom, his feet enlarging as they throb and ache. 'A Gathering of Metal', a quirky image of pieces from a gear-box, registers the ungainly elegance one discovers in machine parts that are picked up and fondled. Meanwhile 'Self-Portrait' summarises the dilemmas one encounters when trying to record one's own image; much about this drawing speaks of the constant tussle between reproducing external appearances, and evoking an internal psychology.

Small, curiously colored and coarsely tactile, Wlnford's works make few concessions to prettlness. Just the same, these are probably the most self-effacing and sincere attempts to approach an expressive idiom that I have seen this year. LIKE essays composed by a trend-con-t sclous student, Annette Bezor's overbearing pictorial machines tend to resemble a visual anthology of the prescribed post-modern moves. Seemingly lapsing Into the theoretical equivalent of palnting-by-numbers, all the current fashionable affectations are to be found in these visual montages: Renaissance and Baroque Imagery, abstract gestures, floral decorations, figures from the mass media, cryptic texts, patterns, thick heavy frames, and artspeakish titles. Bezor's stylistic sources appear to be the late paintings of the French surrealist Plcabla, as well as those early 1980s Transatlantic trend-setters David Salle and Slgmar Polke.

However, while her museum-scale compositions are very entertaining, Bezor is not as technically proficient as these precursors. For example, the roses she includes in several works are badly painted (the tonal values are out). One also worries that the artist hasn't fully thought through the political implications of her images. Indeed, Bezor would be advised to conduct further reading Into European history, particularly If she intends to continue to apparently portray Marie Antoinette as a tragic Innocent. Elvis Costello adds an intimate note rock Elvis Costello (National Tennis Centre, Monday).

Picture: JOHN WOUOSTRA REPORT MICHAEL SHMITH The environment of 'Vesalli Icones' is more fleshly. The production, choreographed by Jonathan Taylor, Includes a dancer (Patrick Harding-lrmer), who is at one stage required to perform with a snake "A water adder who wraps himself around my neck," Mr Harding-lrmer said. The scoring Includes such instruments as sanctus bells, thunder sheet, klaxon, saucepan, a biscuit tin filled with broken glass, and a typewriter. The conductor (Mark Summerbell) Is required to play a music box, and his baton is required to bleed. At rehearsals (minus the snake), Mr Harding-lrmer, wearing just a pair of Y-fronts, suspended himself from his cross, surrounded by lurid reproductions of Vesalius's drawings.

Mr Harding-lrmer loves the challenge of his role, but finds it tiring. "The production runs for 40 minutes. But they are 40 minutes of terror, pain and suffering. All the emotions are there," he said. MMaJaXi costume uuu sei designer uic urn included.

One feels that Beaton was incapable mony and Tightness of so much of his work. But he was equally incapable of making an unsettling picture. Nowhere in this show can one find disturbing Images that touch a deeper chord than the mere love of beautiful people and things. Beaton's best portraits echo the society painters of the past, such as Van Dyck or Joshua Reynolds, not just in their glamorisatlon of the powerful but in their adulation of power itself. tO KIN' is the title of an effective In-O stallation of pictures by Ann Harris.

It is showing in a claustrophobic studio gallery at Gertrude Street and is the perfect place for the work. The six large nonfile rt ntrithlnn Iaii.oiI fiOIITM lit only by three dark red lamps, emerging ghost-like from the darkness. Being alone in this gloomy little room with creaking floorboards Is disconcerting. The only words, apart from a mysterious script projected on to the naked bodies, are separate captions such as "Flay" and "Tattoo" words that evoke body rituals and pain. 'Skin' has associations of Dante or other works that describe the body as a site of torment and loss of wholeness.

Its rawness and intensity is a welcome change from the gallery's often excessively academic art. THE Victorian Centre for Photography is currently running the second nan oi an excnange exnioiuun oi puutu-graphs from Spain, featuring the work of 10 photographers. The Spanish work Is fresh and appealing, although sometimes undergraduate. The work ranges from decorative still-llfes of Ton! Catany to the stagy "PoMo" arrangements of Nestor Torrens. The catalogue Includes essays and pictures covering the Spanish and Australian shows.

One gathers that Australia Is seeing a better show than Spain. The local work, a dreary collection from the usual "salon" artists such as Helen Grace and Roz Drummond, looks decidedly stale compared with the lively If sometimes shallow and pretty work of the Spanish. FESTIVAL DIARY WHAT'S ON TODAY Chamber Music Lunchtime Series (Assembly Hall, 1 pm). Chrissle Parrott Dance Collective (Merlyn Theatre 8 pm). Circus Oz (Melb Town Hall 8 pm).

Dai Rakuda Kan (State Theatre 8 pm). Stephane Grappelli (Concert Hall 8 pm). 'Ball Adat' (George Fairfax Studio 8.15 pm). Pilgrims and Exiles (Playhouse 8.30 pm). Vesalli Icones (Beckett Theatre 8.30 pm).

Chinese Teahouse ffraa Jtn-la IUU. IW UlLII IklUI I frnm nnnni. Visual arts (admission free): Loudon Salnthill retrospective ft Cecil Beaton: 'An instinct for Style' (Vic Arts Centre); Helen Larson private collection (David Jones city store). Free street theatre and Heart Health Festival oi Music (various sites, from noon). Festival Club: Nichaud Fltzglbbon ft Yo Yo; Cloudsville (The Vic restaurant, Victorian Arts Centre from 0.30 pm).

From information supplied by the Melbourne International Festival (inquiries: 686 2142; Fringe inquiries: 419 9564). 19800 BayCoast 0055 15111 Interstate 0055 33221 Patrick Harding-lrmer: "Forty minutes of terror, pain and suffering." Festival dances reach across a gulf of time and history PHOTOGRAPHY Cecil Beaton (Arts Centre Foyer, until Saturday); Skin, by Ann Harris (200 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, until Saturday); On The Shadow Line (Victorian Centre for Photography, 671 Ralhdowne Street, Carlton, until Sunday). GREG NEVILLE FOR four decades, Cecil Beaton was the most stylish court photographer in the world; he photographed film stars, writers, artists and the aristocracy with a flair that In every case perfectly matched his subjects' public perso-nas. He was a thoroughly commercial photographer, supplying the publicity Industry with intelligent and dignified, though never challenging, Images of celebrities such as Salvador Dali, Dame Edith Sitwell and Winston Churchill. Beaton's exhibition features nearly 100 portraits: It amounts to a catalogue of fame and influence in the English-speaking world up to the 1970s a long-vanished world of privilege and certainty.

Beaton was very much a part of that world. He was such a snob, according to writer Tom Wolfe, that he temporarily gave up his homosexuality to seduce the then most exclusive woman in the world, Greta Garbo. Some contact sheets of his portrait sittings with her are Included in the show and give an insight into his working methods. The exhibition, though extensive, is not a true retrospective. It touches only on Beaton's work as a war photographer, when he took many elegant pictures of the destruction In North Africa and China.

I think the exhibition paints Melbourne 0055 Victoria 0055 15321 The world A Make-believe world is still a Man's world TELEVISION BARBARA HOOKS JANET Andrewartha was recently nominated (or an Australian Film Institute award for her role as Marlon Stewart, wife of the Australian ambassador In the ABCGrundy series 'Embassy. Although a "dlpoV wife stationed in a Muslim society, Marion was very much her own woman; strong, articulate, practical and passionate, with a highly developed sense of Justice. In the episode for which Janet Andrewartha was nominated, Marlon pinned back the most highly placed ears in Ragaan when the rights of a drug smuggler superseded those of his victims. But the irony of It all Is not lost on her. Despite her nomination, and despite her character's independent streak, Janet Andrewartha will not be returning to 'Embassy' next season because her screen husband Is not returning.

"It's a very strange sort of business," she mused. "You're hot one minute, cold the next. And to be playing a dependent woman is Interesting because in fact you are a dependent actor in the same way." Happily, there Is life after 'Embassy' for the talented actress who turned a promising bit part into a leading role as the series unfolded. Her next posting is 'Sunday Lunch', a Melbourne Theatre Company production opening at theBiissell Street Theatre on Monday. In Bill Garner's contemporary comedy about the '60s generation revisited in the '90s, Janet Andrewartha plays Sandra, an Arts Ministry bureaucrat and fitness fanatic.

"She's got to look as if she goes to the gym fevery day, which is why I'm on a diet, power walking and trying to get a bit of muscle tone," she sighed. "It's not rry bag, normally. But I've got to do It." Although she empathises with some; facets of her character, Janet Andrewartha says she would never maka a best friend of Sandra. "She's a very Tiard woman, quite cold." Theatre Is Janet Andrewartha's first love precisely because writers have to explore the lives of all their characters, unlike television where it Is easier to get away with using female roles "as She Is critical of screen producers who make false assumptions jabout the action-man, car-chase mentality of their viewers. "There's an enormous audience out there, myself Included, who want to see wome involved In moral conflicts, in making difficult decisions, Just Involved In running their lives." In Ifle as In art, that Is where Janet Andrewartha believes the future lies for women in the industry taking at least some entrepreneurial control of their careers.

She doesn't underestimate 1 he power of a political voice, but that Is how she got started, as a young actress who Initially went to drama chooj to improve her performance as the lead singer In a folk band. When she graduated three years later, she wrote and performed some of her own material. "People say; 'Oh, I can't do that, 'm not a Well, I'm not a writer either, but the more you can do for ypurself, the more you explore your own abilities." Of those, Janet Andrewartha has an abundance and there is no doubt that theatre's gain Is television's loss. Let's hope (t Is only temporary. WHAT'S On TV 7.00 Children's Programs.

11.20 The Giddy Game Show. R. 11.30 Espana Viva. Ft. Afternoon 12.00 Behind The News.

R. S. 12.25 Micro Mindstretchers. R. 12.30 Physical Chemistry.

R. I. 00 National Press Club Luncheon. Guest speaker: Dr John rjewson, Leader of the Federal Opposition. 2.00 The Poltorl That Waits.

R. 3.00 Sesame Street 3.55 The Adventures Of Portland Bill. R. 4.00 Pay School. R.

S. 4.30 Mr Squiggle And Friends. 4.55 JimboJAnd The Jet Set. 5.02 Chronicles Of Namia: The Lion. The Wtch And The Wardrobe.

BBC adventure series. G. R. 5.30 Dinger Bay. G.

R. Evening 6.00 Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwjnkle. Cartoon series. 6.25 Reger Ramjet. G.

R. 6.30 1 Cove Lucy. G. R. 7.00 News.

Sport Weather. 7.30 Trie 7.30 Report Presented by John Jost. 8.00 Quantum. AIDS vaccine; plastip wrap; Magellan and the unveiling of Venus. 8.28 N4ws (also 9.28).

8.30 Diana: The Princess Of Wales. Documentary about one the most photographed woman in the world. S. 9.30 Cduchman Over Australia: Life Outside. Tonight a studio audiepce of people with Intellectual disabilities discuss their lives with those who madejrhe decision to Integrate the intellectually disabled into the community.

10.30 Lateiine. Current affairs presented by Kerry O'Brien. II. 00 Played In Australia (Australian Concert Hall). The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra conducted by Adam Flschdjr plays Zoltan Kodalys 'Hary ttanos Suite'.

12.00 Cote. BARBARA 6.30 9.00 I'm 9.30 Fat 10.00 10.30 comedy Eleven affairs 12.00 musical G. R. R. G.

R. 4.00 Turtles. Blockbuatera. Feud. Wheel Evening 6.00 6.30 Australian 7.00 7.30 Hey comedy hooked wants Robert 6.00 comedy Balkl once With 8.28 6.30 western.

are merchant guard local Estevez, Charlie 10.45 Vizard. 11.45 NBL 1.45 NBC by Katharine 3.46 Play 4.10 4.35 6.35 IN THE Beckett Theatre at the Malt-house, South Melbourne, a Christ-figure was hanging from a cross while, next door In the Merlyn Theatre, eight dancers from Perth were going through their thoroughly modern paces. One of the great things about the Melbourne International Festival is how it throws together different styles, sometimes within the same artform. A brick wall separates the Beckett from the Merlyn. But a gulf of time and history divides the worlds of 'Vesalli Icones' (a music-dance piece by British composer Peter Maxwell-Davles, Inspired by a set of 16th-century anatomical drawings by Andreas Vesalius) and the Chrissle Parrott Dance Collective from Western Australia.

Each Is contemporary dance, each opened last night, but there the differences end. Chrissle Parrott's company is making its first "visit East" (her words). Onstage, her dancers were limbering up while 1 1 stage-hands were manoeuver-ing a grand piano Into the orchestra pit. "We are a young but experienced company," Ms Parrott said. "We follow the white path: we are mainly all vegetarians, none of us smoke.

We are all directors of the company and determine Its future." Her works, she said, create their special environments. REVIEWS ART Yvonne Audette: Paintings 1955-1991 (Lyltlelon Gallery, until 3 October); William Wlnlord (Stuart Gerslman Gallery, until Saturday); Annette Bezor (Luba Bilu Gallery, until Saturday). CHRISTOPHER HEATHCOTE WHEN is an Important Australian artist not an important Australian artist? Judging by the cool reception that Yvonne Audette's work has received over the post four decades, one suspects that the answer should be "when she is an Trained at East Sydney Technical College and the Julian Ashton Art School, Audette left Australia during 1952. Over the following 12 years this neglected expatriate developed her own distinctive non-figurative Idiom, and kept a number of prominent Sydney artists supplied with information about artistic changes In New York and Europe. Audette's work of the 1950s and early '60s doesn't comfortably fit into conventional stylistic classifications, but takes a position midway between geometric and linear abstraction.

Unlike most local counterparts, the artist did not scribble dark wavering lines or motifs across each canvas in the heat of the moment. There are neither wild, brushy gestures nor heavy archetypal symbols to be seen here. Instead, she preferred to manipulate the palette knife patiently, works like 'Persian Dream' (1956) and 'Mlracolo' (1958) being composed of short colored bars and rectangles subtly balanced upon a surface of slowly scraped pigment. Sometimes these marks read as ancient hieroglyphs, sometimes objects on a plane, either way the final configurations are calm and pleasing on the eye. While most pieces are based on a blue-tan color range, the finished compositions are devoid of explicit landscape references a characteristic which puts her oeuvre at odds with its time.

It is apparent that Audette's early works greatly influenced her former teacher John Passmore, most of the paintings that she produced from 1955 onwards prefiguring the style that he adopted three years later. 1 The later works Included here seem to have their origins In Audette's drawings of 1958-64. Reminiscent of the works of the Americans Mark Tobey and Bradley Walker Tomlin, these fragile accretions of goauche, ink and sometimes collaged newsprint possess an exceptional lyricism. From the mid-1960s (when the artist returned to Australia) the dabs and scratches of warm color give way to a dynamic framework of pastel-tinted thrusts, swings and arcs. Turning her attention to the bush, Audette's drawing becomes increasingly looser and more fluid, endeavoring to suggest the unrestrained energy of natural forms.

These later works are uneven and lapse at times into sentiment, yet they are still, In my view, superior to the contemporary watercolors of, say, Victor Majzner or Robert Jacks. EVERYTHING about William Win-ford's works seems contrary to the pompous, over-inflated allegorical paintings that have been synonymous with Expressionist Figuration during the past decade. Rather than being Instantly appealing, viewers need to persevere with these aesthetically blunt objects. MM 6.30 News. 7.00 Good Morning Austrelia.

9.00 'Til Ten. PGR. 10.00 Mulligrubs. G. R.

10.30 Aerobics Oz Style. G. 11.00 Another World. PGR. Afternoon 12.00 Santa Barbara.

PGR. I. 00 The Bold And The Beautiful. PGR. 1.30 Donahue.

"Being black and living in a white PGR. R. 2.30 Generel Hospital. PGR. 3.30 Zorro.

G. 4.00 Power Cuts. Music videos. G. 4.30 Double Dare.

Children's game show. G. 5.00 My Secret Identity. G. 5.30 Blind Date.

Game show. Evening 6.00 News. Sport Weather. 7.00 Neighbour. Australian drama serial.

Brenda's attempts to win Doug are thwarted. A tragedy occurs in Ramsay Street. With Rachel Blakely. G. S.

7.30 Street Australian drama serial. Sheridan makes a shocking discovery. Auditions for the band don't go as expected. With Tony Martin, Kate Ralson, Les Dayman, Cecily Poison. PGR.

S. 8.30 FILM. 48 Hours. 1982 adventure. A detective, trying to track down two killers, springs a streetwise hustler from Jail to help him.

Stars Eddie Murphy, Nick Notte, James Remar. AO. MTV. R. 10.30 News.

Presented by Anne Fulwood. II. 00 Tennis: Queensland Open. Coverage from Milton Courts, Brisbane. Hosted by David Fordham.

Commentators Tony Roche, Bill Bowrey, Geoff Masters. 2.00 After Hour. PGR. 2.30 FILM. Doctor In Trouble.

1970 comedy starring Leslie Phillips. PGR. R. 4.10 FILM. Mr Moto In Danger Island.

1939 mystery starring Peter Lorre. G. R. Darwin Hobart Perth Sydney to be missed MELBOURNE: to Max: 18. VICTORIA: the state Local northerly PORT wind later in ALPINE WARNINGS: for the Trobe Yarra of Ovens; the downstream IN THE max 21 Max 18; Mostly cloudy.

Patchy rain, max rain, max In Adelaide Brisbane Canberra Cloud trough. MIKE DALY PERFORMING in the one-quarter full arena, Elvis Costello went for as much intimacy as possible. He quickly invited the audience to the front of the stage, then turned on a performance of such passion and power that you almost forgot the rows of empty seats court-side, below the curtained-off upper section. Costello, an ample figure with long hair, full beard and granny shades more suited to an early '70s John Lennon, is far removed from the skinny, angry New Wave rocker with oversized glasses who burst on to the music scene 14 years ago. On Monday the Anglo-Irishman wooed and won his 2800 audience with a generosity of spirit and performance he even blew them a kiss at one point.

His voice, though still stretched to the limit on more strident material, has grown deeper and richer. It made his Weather ft" Cartoon Connection. G. Telling. Quiz series.

G. Cat And Friends. G. R. Superior Court.

PGR. R. Never The Twain. British series. G.

R. 11.00 AM. Newscurrent with Ann Sanders. Afternoon Temperatures and conditions in major cities: Mni Max Cond Amsterdam 9 IB cloudy Athens 17 29 clear Auckland 12 18 cloudy Bahrain 26 35 cloudy Bangkok 23 32 rain Beijing 14 25 clear Berlin 10 19 cloudy Cairo 19 30 clear Ctuistchurrh 10 17 cloudy Geneva 17 27 cloudy Harare 10 29 clear Hong Kong 25 30 cloudy Honolulu 21 30 cloudy Islamabad 16 32 clear Jakarta 23 33 clear erusalem 15 24 clear Kuala Lumpur 24 33 ram London 13 19 cloudy Los Angeles 19 33 clear Manita 24 31 cloudy Mecca 27 38 clear Moscow 6 13 cloudy New Delhi 24 35 clear New York 10 21 cloudy Paris 13 20 clear Rome 18 29 rain Singapore 25 31 cloudy Tokyo 19 27 clear Wellington 12 14 cloudy BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY Situation at noon yesterday 2 SEPTEMBER 1991 JLH SSl 6.30 ITN World News. 6.55 Business Today.

7.00 Today. 6.00 Here's Humphrey. G. R. 9.30 In Melbourne Today.

G. 10.30 News. 11.00 What's Cooking? With Gabriel Gate, Colette Mann. 11.30 Entertainment Tonight PGR. Afternoon 12.00 The Midday Show With Ray Martin.

PGR. 1.30 Days Of Our Lives. PGR. 2.30 The Young And The Restless. PGR.

3.30 Diff'rent Strokes. G. R. 4.00 Laverne And Shirley. G.

R. 4.30 Look Who's Talking. Current affairs. C. 5.00 Bug Bunny Show.

R. 5.58 Keno. Evening Jeff Bridges stars in 'Jagged Edge' (9,8.30 pm) FILM. Road To Bali. 1953 starring Bing Crosby.

2.00 Perry Mason. PGR. 3.00 Beverly Hillbillies. 3.30 Family Ties. G.

R. Teenage Mutant Nlnja G. R. 4.30 C. 5.00 Family Game show.

G. 5.30 Of Fortune. G. TODAY'S FORECASTS Cloudy with patchy rain developing. Light moderate northerly wind tending southwesterly later.

Patchy rain in the north-west spreading across during the day. Isolated morning fogs in the east. thunderstorms in the north-west. Light to moderate wind, tending southwesterly from the west later. PHILLIP AND WESTERN PORT BAYS: Northerly 10-15 knots, shifting southwesterly at 10-15 knots the day.

Waves to half a metre. AREAS: Mostly cloudy with a little rain developing. Generally light wind. Warnings of moderate flooding are current La Trobe River around and downstream of Rose-dale. Warnings of minor flooding are current for the La River, downstream of Thorns Bridge; the MacAlls-ter, downstream of Lake Glenmaggie; the Yarra, around Glen; the lower reaches of King; the lower reaches the Acheron; the Goulburn, from Eildon to Seymour; the Goulburn, around and downstream of Sheppar-ton; Barwon, downstream of Pollocksford; the Murray, of Lake Hume.

COUNTRY: Mildura: Mostly cloudy. Patchy rain, Swan Hill: Cloudy. Patchy rain, max 19; Horsham: Albury: Cloudy. Rain developing, max 21; Bendl-go: Mostly cloudy. Patchy rain, max 18; Shepparton: cloudy.

Patchy rain, max 20; Ballarafc Mostly Some rain, max 14; Geelong: Mostly cloudy. rain, max 18; Warrnambool: Mostly cloudy. Some 16; La Trobe Valley: Cloud Increasing. Some 19; Sale: Max 20; Orbost Max 21. other states Toda Min Shower or two 20 22 10 Fine 25 23 15 Afternoon 3.15 Vremya.

4.00 English At Work. R. G. 4.30 Australian Mosaic. R.

5.00 Kaleidoscope. 5.30 How To Survive In Japan. 6.00 And Love Tomorrow. French drama series. Evening The weather was fine In Victoria yesterday although middle-level cloud increased over western and central areas during the day.

Winds were gradually light and variable, lending north-east lo northerly in the west. Local sea bre2es occurred about the coast. Maximum temperatures were mostly In the range 16 to 19 degrees, which is close to the September average. The lowest reported maximum was 20 degrees at Ouven. By contrast, the temperature at Mt Buller rose to only eight degrees.

In Melbourne, thy temperature ranged from an overnight minimum of 5.0 degrees at 4.5S am to a maximum of 19 degrees at 1 pm. A high-pressure system, centred over eastern Victoria, was rtsoonsiblt for the settled conditions over the state. A low-pressure trough over South Australia is moving south-east, and hioh cloud associated with this system extended over Victoria yesterday. A cold front it crossing waters, south of the Bight. The high-pressure system will move slowly eastwards.

The low-pressure trough and the cold front will both approach Victoria, bringing unsettled conditions with patchy rain to Victoria. 6.00 Newa. Sport Weather. 6.30 A Current Affair. Presented by Jana Wendt.

7.00 Sale Of The Century. Lucky $5 note viewer competition. S. 7.30 Matlock. US drama series: The Don.

Part one. A British ambassador Is accused of murdering his lover's husband. With Andy Griffith, Jose Ferrer. PGR. 8.30 FILM.

Jagged Edge. 1985 thriller. A wealthy San Francisco publisher Is accused of murdering his wife. Stars Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges. AO.

R. 10.45 The World Tonight With Cllve Robertson. 11.45 Nightingales. US drama series with Suzanne Pleshette. PGR.

12.45 Concealed Enemies. Final of the two-part mini-series about the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers spy case. With Edward Herrmann, John Harklns. AO. 3.00 FILM.

Seven Nights In Japan. 1976 drama stars Michael York. PGR. R. 6.00 Carson's Comedy Classics.

PGR. R. S.30 The Sullhans. G. R.

Mainly fine 18 15 Snow report Victorian mow condltloni at 3 pm yesterday: MT DULLER: Excellent soring skiing on fantastic cover of snow, 171cm deep. Weather line, sunny. Roads open to car parks. All 24 lifts Operating. FALLI CREEK; Excellent downhill skiing on superb cover of snow, 245cm deep.

Visibility good and road ii ooen. All 22 lifts operating. MT HOTHAM: Downhill skiing (or all levels on snow 258cm deep. Clear with good visibility. Both access roads open but chains must be fitted.

Seven litis operating. MT IAW IAW; First rate skiing on spring snow 140cm deep. Clear with good visibility. Road ooen and clear. Five I'll) operating.

MT BUFFALO: Great skiing, all levels, with extensive grooming. Clear with pood visibility. Road open and clear. deep. Fine and clear with good visibility.

Road ooen and clear, MT STIRLING: X-C skiing excellent on snow 173cm deep. Fine, sunny, good visibility. Road open. MT IT GWINCAR: Excellent skiing on all trails. Snow 75cm deeo.

Fine and clear. Road ooen and dear. MT OONNA HUANG: Sightseeing snow on summit. DINNER PLAIN: skiing excellent and lift is ooerating. information mpptVed by the Alpine Retorts Commission.

Detail: Snowline 11545. 2 23 7 11 10 The planets TODAY UN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS Hues 6.06 am 7.51 pm 5.58 am 4.10am 6.44 am SATURN .06 pm TOMORROW Rises lift! MOON j.se pm MERCOnV 5.S6 am VENUS 4.0A am MARS 6.42 am JUPITER 4.S7.m SATURN LOJprn Expectod situation for 9 am today 1 tV ft Fine 33 32 Showers developing 16 15 Fine 22 21 Cloudy 22 20 Newt. Sport. Weather. Home And Away.

drama serial. G. S. Hlnch. Current affairs.

Dad. Australian series. Jenny gets on numerology and to change her life. With Hughes. G.

Perfect Strangers. US series. Larry and are visited by a man who tried to blow them up. Branson Pinchot. G.

Tattslotto Draw 1062. FILM. Young Guns. 1988 Six young outcasts hired by an English as "regulators" to his ranch against the mob. Stars Emilio Kiefer Sutherland, Sheen.

AO. R. Tonight Live With Sieve AO. Basketball. Replay of the elimination final.

Today Show. Hosted Bryant Gumbel and Courlc. Your Cards Right G. Generations. PGR.

Bergerac. PGR. R. Praia Your Luck. G.

6.30 World Newa. 7.00 Dressed To Thrill. Final of the series about clothes worn for effect: The Stiletto Heel. 7.30 The Movie Show. Presented by David Stratton and Margaret Pomeranz.

6.00 Dateline. Pria Vlswalingam presents a program focusing on immigration and unemployment In Australia. 9.00 FILM. Coeura Flambes. 1986 Danish comedy.

A nurse, in her mld-30s and fiercely Independent, has a secret yearning for a permanent relationship and children. 10.50 The Noise. International rock music series, hosted by Annette Shun-Wah. 11.50 FILM. A Mother's Heart Italian drama.

A widow becomes upset while overhearing her children discuss her future with no regard for her feelings. 1.30 Ck)M. The Tides TOMORROW Wililamstown Hioh Water: 4.23 Im'. 4i0 S4PmomLow am. 'AVpV0 Vfll Wattf! 3.13 am.

TODAY WMIUmstown High Water: 3.35 am, 3.45 pm. Low water: 9.55 am, 10.15 pm. Port Phillto Heads High Water: 12.22 am, 12.40 pm. Low water: 6.19 am, 6.36 pm. Tooradin Hrgti Water: 1.45 am, 2.03 pm.

Low water: 7.42 am, 7.59 pm. Solar energy Total lolar energy for the Melbourne area yesterday was 19.6 mega- SulestQ about 35 per cent above average for September. over NW Victoria Ii oiockrtd wtth on upper Cloud SW of AustraUa to auociated with cold HOOKS'S TV STARS: Worth considering Excellent Not.